The 46th edition of Cinanima — Espinho International Animated Film Festival begins on November 7 and will feature 107 films from 26 countries in competition, as well as a retrospective on Polish director Piotr Kamler.
Until the 13th of that month, the Aveiro district contest will thus present the best works selected by a specialized jury from 3,400 candidates from 111 nationalities.
A source from the festival said that in the international competition there will be 76 works competing for prizes, whether in the category of feature films, ‘short films’ or school films, and that in the national category there will be 31 ‘short films’ in competition. distributed by the António Gaio Award, the Portuguese Young Filmmaker Award for Children’s and Youth Films (up to 18 years old) and the Portuguese Young Filmmaker Award for Adult Filmmakers (18 to 30 years old).
As for the retrospective, it will be dedicated to the career of Piotr Kamler, who, born in Warsaw, where he was born in 1936, completed his artistic training at the Paris School of Fine Arts and was a pioneer in his way of merging various visual techniques and handmade with sound forms.
To showcase this cinematography, the festival will screen seven Kamler films on November 7, including the nine-minute short film “An Ephemeral Mission” (1993), with music by Bernard Parmegiani.
Before the formal start of Cinanima 2022, the event will go through several Portuguese universities, in a previous festival that, according to the source of the event, will be full of viewing sessions in October and “artistic initiatives on November 5 and 06”. .
This section of the festival was implemented in 2014, aims at “film education” and has free admission. It includes the exhibition of “three high-quality author animation programs, aimed mainly at the academic community”, in a universe of 16 educational institutions, but also open to the general public.
30 short films will be screened, including the winners of the 2021 edition of Cinanima, works from the French school “Pôle 3D” and a selection of the best films from the Austrian festival “Tricky Women”.
These ‘shorts’ will be repeated “in a total of 46 sessions, in academic auditoriums and other cultural spaces” throughout the national territory.
Source: Observadora
